COLLECTIVE ACTION PROJECTS

IGNITE is a multi-day convening that brings together high-capacity donors, donor educators, and donor organizers for connection, learning, and action. IGNITE will inspire participants to move more money to movements. This effort builds on lessons learned from Destination Impact and is a project of the IDPC.

IGNITE poses a critical question for donors and donor network staff to consider: What will it take to make a multiracial democracy possible?  

IGNITE participants will:

  • Learn about centering racial equity and systems change in their philanthropy and work

  • Connect with organizations within the donor educator and donor organizer ecosystem to deepen their impact and partnerships

  • Build cross-issue, cross-race, and cross-class relationships with like-minded individuals

  • Leverage a strategic opportunity to connect with donors and connect donors across the ecosystem through shared learning

  • Join together to mobilize $4 million to frontline movements

  • This gathering promotes impact driven philanthropy by focusing on how donors can help advance a multi-racial democracy.

Audiences and Purposes:
This tool would be administered by organizations/networks in the donor support ecosystem to inquire about their members’ philanthropic giving/practices. Practitioners (donor educators, organizers, advisors) are the primary audience for the data that come out of this effort. The data/insights are meant to help understand and better support their donors’/members’ philanthropy. The IDPC is a secondary audience. The data/insights (in aggregate) collected from this tool, are meant to test the IDPC’s collective hypothesis that donors who are connected to the donor support ecosystem are more likely to give better over time (in ways that align with the IDP tenets.) Organizations/networks could use this tool to understand the giving behavior of members.

Common Donor Behavior Change Measurement Framework/Tool

Jointly developing a common measurement tool (with some customizability) that donor education and organizing groups could use with their donors/ members to understand how donors connected to the ecosystem are giving (are they giving in ways that align with IDP tenets?) and changes in donors’ giving behaviors over time.